Long Island will need to build more than 250,000 new homes within the next two decades to meet the dramatically growing housing demand. Current zoning, however, will only allow about a third of that number to be built.

A recent report by the nonprofit Regional Plan Association stated that 256,843 additional housing units will be needed by 2040. The RPA estimates account for projected population growth as well as demand arising from structures expected to be flooded out from rising sea levels. Given local town and village zoning in place as of mid-2024, when the data in the report was analyzed, RPA estimates that only 102,252 houses can be built by 2040.

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